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 Academic Year:
| 2012/3 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department of Biology & Biochemistry |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
Semester 1 |
| Assessment:
| CW 20%, EX 80% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: To provide the students with a foundation of knowledge on the diversity of microbial life, their important cellular structures, their diverse means of replication and their genetic systems. Learning Outcomes: After taking this course the student should be able to: * Describe the diversity that exists amongst microbes; * Describe important cellular features of these microbes; * Explain their means of replication; * Understand their important genomic feature and how these contribute to their evolution. Skills: Learning and studying T/F/A, Written communication T/F/A, Laboratory skills T/F, Information technology T/F, Information handling & retrieval T/F/A, Working independently T/F. Content: This Unit will examine the major groups of microorganisms: i.e. bacteria, viruses, yeast, fungi, archaea and protozoa. It will discuss their important cellular structures (eg adhesin, flagellae, envelopes, hyphae and filaments), their unique means of replication, their genomes, and their genetic systems (eg promoters, operons, plasmids, transposons, recombination, transformation, transduction, conjugation, restriction/modification systems; and for fungi: ploidy, sex and parasex, heterokaryosis; recombination: models and molecules; mating types; cell type determination and switching; genetics of filamentous fungi; physical mapping; fungal structural genomics; comparative fungal genomics; whole genome duplication; functional genomics; mitochondrial genetics). |
| Programme availability: |
BB20202 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Biology & Biochemistry
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